1 Pound Bank of Ireland

The Bank of Ireland's pre-independence pound notes occupied an awkward position in Irish monetary life — issued by a private chartered institution that held quasi-central bank status under British rule, yet increasingly resented as a symbol of the financial establishment. This series ran through the entire stretch of the 1916 Rising and the subsequent political upheaval, meaning notes from the later end of the date range circulated during one of the most volatile periods in modern Irish history.

Pick 74 is among the last issues before wartime disruption and the approaching independence crisis forced substantive changes to Irish note design and issuing arrangements.